Timeline for 3 3-hour exams in a row with no time in between. What can I do?
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| May 1, 2017 at 6:33 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | @smci: The "Fundamentals of Engineering" and "Principles and Practice of Engineering" exams are each a single day with 8 hours of exams (with 60 or 90 minutes break in the middle). So while 9 hours of engineering exams in a day is something the university would like to avoid subjecting students to, it isn't overburdensome. Being contiguous with no break is cruel though. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 22:34 | comment | added | smci | @TomKelly What was the max number of exam hours in a day you heard of anyone taking, in your system, incl. interdisciplinary? | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 13:45 | comment | added | JMac | In my Canada university there were specific policies in place for this situation. If you had more than 2 exams in a day they would have to accommodate that. Usually they would reschedule an entire exam if possible. If not the people with conflicts would take it at another time. It would have been insane to try and take 3 engineering exams in a day. Most Canadian universities have similar policies to make sure it doesn't happen. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 5:15 | comment | added | Tom Kelly ケリー・トム | Sure, I'm unfamiliar with North American systems but we do this by filing for "Special consideration" with the University, not the professors themselves. In our case, the exams are set but the University administration (with only a couple of weeks notice), not your professor so there's not much they can do about it. While it was considered for consecutive exams, it requires (an unlikely) unanimous agreement from the class to reschedule an exam here. Asking for assistance has been addressed in other answers also. Plus, the OP may have reasons for asking here instead of them directly. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 4:43 | comment | added | Zibbobz | Studying hard doesn't really change their situation - the three tests, all of which are major parts of their grade, are still stacked one after another in a timeframe that is unrealistic for them to complete. It is worth at least asking if anything can be done to avoid this scenario, especially since they have months of time to prepare. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 3:40 | comment | added | Tom Kelly ケリー・トム | Wow this wasn't well received, huh? Our University (not in North America) tried to schedule larger courses commonly taken together apart. However, to those of us taking an interdisciplinary course this kind of thing happened a lot. I empathise with the situation but honestly it's most practical to assume the worst and be prepared. | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 23:14 | history | answered | Tom Kelly ケリー・トム | CC BY-SA 3.0 |